SABMiller has passed over longstanding adviser Lovells on its €816m (£583m) bid for Dutch brewer Grolsch, turning instead to Herbert Smith alliance firm Stibbe. It is understood that SABMiller’s financial adviser ABN Amro recommended the Dutch firm over Lovells’ Amsterdam office, which has only nine partners. Stibbe partner Marius Josephus Jitta is leading for SABMiller […]
Cobbetts’ Birmingham office advised International Process Plant & Equipment (IPPE) and Acorn Developments on the latter’s acquisition of a 37-acre site at the Kirkby Industrial Estate in Knowsley in the North West. The site has been purchased from Kodak. The deal was led by commercial property partner Eleanor Deady, assisted by environmental law partner Keith […]
With a role that encompasses Africa, Europe and Asia, RGA International’s new global counsel Catherine Regan has a lot to get to grips with. My role is somewhat of a general practitioner with a varied geographical spread,” says RGA International’s Catherine Regan of her newly acquired multijurisdictional position. Regan took on the task of international […]
The latest development in the property market is the inevitable arrival of ‘green leases’ between landlords and tenants. By Alison Murrin Ever-increasing EU legislation requiring member states to cut greenhouse gas emissions and the fact that buildings are viewed as a prime target for achieving these reductions means both building owners and occupiers are becoming […]
The new Crossrail line linking East and West London is expected to add £20bn to the country’s coffers, but some in the capital will lose out during its construction. Simon Ricketts and Nikolina Babic examine the impact of the project With the Prime Minister’s recent funding confirmation and with Royal Assent of the Crossrail Bill […]
The Planning Gain Supplement Tax is out and a tariff-based approach to planning charges is in. However, the details are still to be finalised, says Tim Pugh In the Queen’s Speech on 6 November there was no reference to a Planning Gain Supplement Tax Bill. For the British Property Federation (BPF) and the many others […]
An influx of Eastern European labour is helping North East business. But it’s vital that the workers’ rights are upheld, says David Gibson The image of the North East as a stagnant economic area belies the tremendous industry and innovation currently taking place in the region. The One North East Regional Economic Strategy for 2006 […]
Olswang reshapes practice” />News that Olswang plans to cull 10 from its real estate department harks back to the uncertain times of the early 1990s for the mid-tier world, when firms were sending letters by courier to staff on the Friday saying: “Don’t come in on Monday.” For many years that prospect seemed a remote […]
Mills & Reeve has moved to cement its foothold in the matrimonial market by launching a website for people going through divorce, separation or dissolution of civil partnership. The firm, which will open in Leeds and Manchester in February after taking on Addleshaw Goddard‘s North West family practice (The Lawyer, 19 November), intends that the […]
New York magnate and Dundas & Wilson client Donald Trump has scored a major victory in a long-running project to build a £1bn world-class golf development in Aberdeenshire. Earlier in the week, an Aberdeenshire planning committee voted 7-4 in favour of the project, which Dundas & Wilson property partner Allan Wernham has been advising on […]
Beachcroft has lost its head of technology Nick Holland to rival firm Eversheds. Holland, who will join Eversheds as a partner in January, has quit Beachcroft to take advantage of Eversheds’ wider European offering. Eversheds head of technology Rex Parry said: “Nick advises suppliers of IT kit and his business is pan-European. He aims to […]
Linklaters’ lateral hiring policy has borne fruit with two new partners securing one of the biggest buyouts since the credit crunch dried up liquidity. The magic circle firm advised Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and new client Quadrangle Capital Partners in the NOK5.8bn (£520m) buyout of Norwegian cable company Get from Clifford Chance’s longstanding private equity […]